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    Senior Member jordy's Avatar
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    How well do you know American history?

    Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)

    Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.


    Take the test:

    33 questions:

    http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

    10 questions (the shorter version):

    http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx


    p.s. You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
    Last edited by jordy; 11-13-2012 at 09:09 AM.
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    YOUR RANKING

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dribble View Post
    YOUR RANKING

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    Did that link take you to the full 33 question one or just the 10 question short version?

    Try this one for all the questions if it didn't do it the first time:

    http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692
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    The link took me to the full 33 question quiz but it was fairly well written so the answers were not so ambiguous as most tests are, where two answers are correct but one is "more correct." I liked how this one was written but I'm concerned about their statement that "The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%." This is not rocket science, it's vital citizenship knowledge.

    You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    I liked how this one was written but I'm concerned about their statement that "The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%." This is not rocket science, it's vital citizenship knowledge.[/COLOR]

    You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %
    Nice work! The ones I missed I over-thought, with the exception of the Socrates question, and I narrowed that down to 2 possibilities.

    I would hate to see what the average score would be now... in 2008 we, as a nation, seemed a little bit smarter than we do today... :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by jordy View Post
    The movie "Idiocracy" is becoming true prophecy and it won't take 500 years...
    We're living it already. After last Tuesday, I suspect we'll have Rondo instead of water coming from our faucets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    We're living it already. After last Tuesday, I suspect we'll have Rondo instead of water coming from our faucets.
    It's got electrolites which is what plants crave!!!
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    How well do you know American history?

    63.64.... That's still an F

    21 out 33
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    We're living it already. After last Tuesday, I suspect we'll have Rondo instead of water coming from our faucets.
    It's what plants crave.

    I missed six, pretty disappointed in myself, so 81%.

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    You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

 

 

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